WEBVTT >> ALL I HEARD WAS CLICKING.HE WAS RUNNING EXACTLY TOWRADSME.JAYNE: THIS TEENAGE BOY, WHOM WEARE NOT IDENTIFYING, WAS WALKINGHIS DOG LAST NIGHT WHEN, HESAYS, HE ENCOUNTERED A MAN WITHA GUN, AND POLICE ON HIS TAIL.>> THE POLICE WAS COMING TIGHTTHERE.THEY ASKED ME IF I KNEW WHERE HEWENT.JAYNE: SO THEY WERE FOLLOWINGHIM, PURSUING HIM?YES.>>YES.YES MA'AM. JAYNE: POLICE SAY GHE MAN WASFIRST SPOTTED RUNNING FROM ACONVENINCE STORE, THAST HAD BEENHELD UP AT GUNPOINT.PURSING OFFICERS FOLLOWED HIM TOA CAR.THE SHOOTING CAME NEXT.>> THEY WENT TO APPROACH THEVEHICLE ON FOOT AND AS THEYAPPROACED THE VEHCLE IT BEGANTPO ACCELERATE TOWARDS THEM.SO OUR OFFICERS FEARING FORTHEIR OWN LIVES BEGAN TO FIRE ONTHEIR VEHICLE.JAYNE: THREE MEN WERE SHOT, ONEFATALLY.POLICE SAY NONE OF THE 3 FIREDON POLICE.A HANDGUN THEY SAY WAS FOUND.LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR BEFORETHE CONVENIENCE STORY ROBBERY, AMOTEL CLERK WAS PISTOL WHIPPEDDURING A ROBBERY AT A NEARBYHOTEL.PART OF WHAT POLICE WAS RRING OFROBBERIES JUST YESTERDAY.>> WE BELIEVE THESE SUSPECTSBEGAN COMMITING ROBBEREIESYESTERDAY AROUND 4:00 P.M.JAYNE: POLICE SAY SINCE THEBEGNNING OF THE YEAR, THERE HAVEBEEN AS MANY AS 26 ARMEDROBBERIES IN THE REGION,COMMITTED BY PEOPLE WITH SIMILARDESCRIPTIONS AS THE MEN SHOTLAST NIGHT, AND USING SIMILARMETHODSOME OF THE OFFICERS WEREINVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING LASTNIGHT WERE WEARING BODY CAMERAS,ACCORDING TO A POLICESPOKESPERSON, AND THOSE VIDEOSARE NOT BEING RELEASED AT THISTIME AS THEY ARE PART OF THEINVESTIGATION OF THE SHOOTING.ALSO PART OF THE ROBBERYINVESTIGATIONS, MANY OF THOSEINCIDENTS POLICE SAY WERE

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Police said officers were investigating multiple reports of armed robberies that had occurred in a matter of hours in western Baltimore County.

An officer was on patrol at about 11:45 p.m. when he saw someone suspicious in the area of the Royal Farms store located in the 6400 block of Windsor Mill Road near the police precinct. A second officer responded to the Royal Farms store to check on the well-being of those inside when he was immediately notified that the store had just been robbed.

Police said the man was first spotted running from a convenience store that had beenheld up at gunpoint. Pursing officers followed him to a car parked with several people inside at Walnut Street and Englewood Avenue. As two officers walked up to the vehicle, the car began to accelerate toward the officers, police said.

"They went to approach the vehicle on foot, and as they approached the vehicle, it began to accelerate toward them, so our officers, fearing for their own lives, began to fire on their vehicle," Baltimore County police Sgt. Andrea Bylen said.

All three wounded suspects were taken to hospitals. One of the suspects, Rashad Daquan Opher, 20, of Windsor Mill, later died. The other two remain hospitalized under police guard. Multiple armed robbery charges are pending.

Since the beginning of the year, robbery detectives have been investigating a significant number of armed robberies involving suspects of a similar description and methodology.

Police said at least five armed robberies were committed by these suspects over the weekend at various liquor and convenience stores in the Wilkens and Woodlawn precincts.

Police believe the suspects were working together and taking turns committing these robberies. Video from several of the crime scenes clearly depicts the suspects with handguns.

Police said the suspects are believed to have committed multiple armed robberies between the hours of 4 p.m. and midnight on Monday. Included in these robberies were one at a Woodlawn area hotel where one of the suspects violently struck and seriously injured a clerk with a handgun.

Homicide investigators responded and recovered a handgun from the suspect vehicle. The vehicle will be searched for additional evidence during the ongoing homicide investigation. The robbery unit's investigation of the west side robberies also is ongoing.

Police said that the homicide unit investigates all police-involved shootings. After the investigation is complete, the incident will be reviewed by the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The officers involved in the shooting are Corporal Gonzales, a 21-year officer assigned to the Woodlawn Precinct; and Officer Pierce, of the K-9 unit. Officer Pierce has been an officer with Baltimore County Police for 8 1/2 years.

Neither officers have been involved in any previous shooting incidents.

Police said body-worn camera footage from the scene is part on the ongoing investigation and will not be released at this time.

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